Kathleen Edwards

Copied Keys

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This is not my town and it will never be.
This is our apartment filled with your things.
This is your life, I get copied keys.
Try and force a little smile, hold it a little while, for you.

These are your old streets and you know them well.
One way shortcuts all the way downtown.
But your favorite find is just my secondhand secret.
Try and hide a little pain for the things
I can't explain to you.

There are your good friends and I like them fine.
Cuz they are your past and your present time.
But would you even be the same if you left them behind?
All the things I used to be,
All the things I miss of me for you.

There are your good friends and I like them fine.
These are you old streets and you know them well.
This is not my town and it will never be.
And it will never be... ours.

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beazer On Mar 03, 2005

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2005-03-03 08:13:30

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by dark_maiden101

20y ago

Yeah i agree with that, but I think it's going a little deeper. It seems to me like she's moved away from her life, her town, her friends to be with him and while she's trying and is fine with it, she still feels hugely dislocated in a city she doesn't know. One of my favourtie songs on the album

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by omnivoreron

20y ago

This song is fantastic. It's talking about being a foreigner in a place, even though someone else you're with - and might love - is there and is comfortable and can't understand why you can't do the same as them there.

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by violetanderson

19y ago

I saw Katleen Edward play in Vicar Street, Dublin supporting Josh Ritter. I instantly loved her.

In this song the woman has given up everything she knows to go and live in her partners town. He seems to be oblivious to the sacrifices she has made. Shes trying hard to make it work, but he just expects her to assume this new life without a hitch. He gets to have everything he knows and she gets to live in his apartment with his things . . . and a 'copied key'. In the end, shes going to leave: 'This is not my town and it will never be, it will never be ours'

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